Child-birthin' hips for the win.
MEGGAN (Meggan Braddock, nee' Puceanu, aka Glorianna)
Created By: Alan Moore & Alan Davis
First Appearance: The Mighty World of Marvel #7 (Dec. 1983)
Role: Miss Fanservice, Shapeshifter, Alien Girl
Country of Origin: England
Group Affiliations: Excalibur, MI-13
PL 9 (193)
STRENGTH 1
STAMINA 3
AGILITY 4
FIGHTING 8
DEXTERITY 0
INTELLIGENCE 0
AWARENESS 0
PRESENCE 0
Skills:
Acrobatics 3 (+7)
Close Combat (Unarmed) 2 (+10)
Expertise (Arcane Lore) 6 (+6)
Expertise (Survival) 5 (+5)
Insight 2 (+2)
Intimidation 6 (+6)
Perception 4 (+4)
Persuasion 5 (+5, +7 Attractive)
Persuasion 4 (+9) -- Flaws: Limited to Animals
Stealth 4 (+8)
Advantages:
All-Out Attack, Animal Empathy, Attractive, Ranged Attack 9, Teamwork
Powers:
"Mutant Powers: Empathy & Shapeshifting"
Mind Reading 8 (Flaws: Limited to Emotions) [8]
"Emotion Control" Affliction 4 (Will; Dazed/Compelled/Controlled) (Extras: Perception Range +2) [12]
Comprehend 2 (Speak To & Understand Animals) [4]
"Elemental Control Via Earth Empathy"
Flight 5 (60 mph) [10]
Morph 3 (Humanoid Forms) [15]
Shapeshift 8 [64]
(common powers: Super-Strong Forms, Elemental Forms, Energy Blasts, Earth/Air/Water Control, Mimicking Super-Humans)
Offense:
Unarmed +10 (+1 Damage, DC 16)
Shapeshifting +10 (+9 Damage, DC 24)
Ranged Attacks +9 (+9 Ranged Damage, DC 24)
Initiative +4
Defenses:
Dodge +10 (DC 20), Parry +10 (DC 20), Toughness +3 (+9 Shapeshifting), Fortitude +6, Will +5
Complications:
Vulnerable (Mind/Emotion Control)- Meggan is more easily controlled than most by Mental attacks.
Weakness (Leaving British Soil)- Meggan's health and powers decrease rapidly when she is not on English soil- the result could kill her.
Relationship (Brian Braddock)- Meggan has loved Captain Britain for years; his flirtacious relationship with Courtney Ross bothered her greatly. By comparison, she has flirted with both Nightcrawler and Colossus.
Quirk (Takes Expected Forms)- Meggan's empathy occasionally causes her powers to activate automatically, and she grows more attractive or more ugly based off of her emotional state, or others' perceptions of her.
Responsibility (Naiive)- Meggan was largely raised by the television, and is often clueless about current (or even recent) events (she did not know who Doctor Doom was, for example), and doesn't know how to act in certain situations.
Total: Abilities: 32 / Skills: 38--19 / Advantages: 13 / Powers: 113 / Defenses: 16 (193)
-Not a big Meggan fan. Her costumes were at-best uninventive and weird-looking in a super-hero book, and her powers were just straight-up all over the place. She was kinda funny in
Excalibur as the "Outsider" to human ways who was silly, shy and nervous all the time, but she paled in comparison to Kitty & Nightcrawler's characterization. She's probably one of the lesser-known X-themed characters out there. Also, what's up with a Roma child growing up with natural blonde hair (even without shapeshifting, her totally normal form is just slightly more alien-looking than her regular "Pamela Anderson with pointy ears" look)?
-Meggan was born woth fur, and an "empathic metamorph" power that led her to grow more freakish as her family got more and more horrified. It wasn't until Meggan (who was largely "raised by television") was told that she had a beautiful soul that she suddenly grew beautiful herself, gaining her trademark form. She would meet up with Captain Britain, soon becoming his traveling companion. Eventually, the two became lovers. She followed him to Excalibur, becoming the character least focused on of the main group. One of her few major arcs was a serious crush on Nightcrawler (who reciprocated). As the series ends with her & Brian getting married, and they go on to rule a mystical realm for a while.
-It says something that nearly everything involving Captain Britain after that early run on
Excalibur tends to ignore the woman who became HIS WIFE in the finale of that book. I mean, she'd vanished for almost all of
Captain Britain & MI-13 (she was thought-dead after sacrificing herself to save the universe in
House of M), as well as numerous other revamps and uses of the guy- it's like Marvel wants to use Brian, but has no use for his wife, turning her into a kind of Sacrificial Girlfriend. Though it was fun in MI:13, watching her lead an army through Hell, as her innate goodness allowed her to mess with the power of the Hell Lords and free their captive souls.
-What is it with these X-types and being pains in the ass to build? Problematically, Meggan basically had Powers As The Plot Demands, being a super-powerful Shapeshifter who could adapt to any situation, so she ends up having 45 points to put wherever she wants (usually copying another super-human, just growing big & strong monster-style, or blasting away with elemental powers), which is an expensive damn power (as it should be- she's apparently mimicked Colossus, Rachel Summers and even the SILVER SURFER once, but we'll just call that an Extra Effort instance to save my brain), in addition to some side benefits like reading emotional states (in
MI: 13, she began altering the emotions of Demons in Hell, effortlessly turning them against their masters en masse, resulting in the creation of her own kingdom- Demons are apparently highly-vulnerable to Empathic attacks, and her own powers increased around this time). She's heavily Complicated, as she's fatally vulnerable to being away from English soil for too long, and I figure her for a PL 9 overall (at peak Toughness, she'd likely drop some Defenses to avoid breaking caps)- she never came across as that powerful- just versatile.